Heavy snowfalls have buried Moscow in massive snow piles, disrupting transport, delaying flights and making it tough to get around for pedestrians braving strong winds and temperatures of minus 15 degrees Celsius.
The snowfall started late on Thursday and was expected to end on Sunday. Russia s emergency service advised people to stay away from trees, warning of winds gusts of 18 metres per second. It s a real snowstorm, a snow Armageddon, a snow apocalypse. This is not a practice alert, but a combat alert, Evgeny Tishkovets from the weather service Fobos was quoted by RIA news agency as saying before the snowfall began.
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A major winter storm is expected to descend on Moscow this week with massive snowdrifts and unusually cold air temperatures even by the Russian capital’s standards, forecasters said Wednesday.
Snow is expected to blanket Moscow beginning Thursday afternoon and lasting into the weekend, Russian weather service chief Roman Vilfand told the state-run TASS news agency. news
He also forecast the accumulation of some of the tallest snowdrifts since February 2018, when snow cover neared 50 centimeters.